Outside the system
Month: September 2026
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From 9/11 to Southport: The Deadly Blind Spots in Britain’s Counter-Terror System
Suha Kidwai examines why, a quarter-century after 9/11, a system built around extremist ideologies still struggles to confront people fixated on mass violence
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Reform UK Members Dismiss Climate Crisis as ‘Farce’ After Record Summer Heatwaves
Attendees at Nigel Farage’s party conference suggest crisis is manufactured by the Government in order to control the population
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Conservative Peer Hosts Far-Right Activists Alongside US-Funded Anti-Abortion Group
Prominent Neo-Nazis attended the event in Parliament, hosted by an anti-abortion group, in which they called for politicians to “stop importing an invasive foreign serf class”
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Jason Arday: The Story Behind the Story of The Times’ ‘Impossible Data’
The newspaper of record failed to distinguish between corrections and retractions in the work of the late Cambridge University academic, fuelling the media firestorm that engulfed him
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Green Party Split Over Iran as Members Push to Oppose IRGC Ban and Sanctions
A conference motion with significant backing urges an end to sanctions on Iran and opposes banning the IRGC – putting party policy on a collision course with its own MPs
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Voter ID Has Damaged Trust in UK Elections, Study Finds
Young people, low-income and trans voters were among the groups hardest hit by the policy imposed by the last Conservative Government, academics found
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Reform UK Donations Overwhelmingly Have Overseas or Tax-Haven Ties
Analysis of the latest Electoral Commission filings shows 87% of the £5.4m in donations newly-declared by Nigel Farage’s party came from donors linked to offshore jurisdictions
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‘Israel’s Shrill Attack on Ed Miliband Exposes Its Weakness’
Alexandra Hall Hall, a former UK diplomat who worked on the Middle East Peace Process in the Foreign Office, argues that Israel’s extreme response to the UK shows it is now losing the argument
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‘A Cap on Donations Is Not Anti-Union — It Is Anti-Oligarchy’
New Electoral Commission figures show £14.2 million flowed into party coffers in three months, one day after ministers finally admitted mega-donations are a problem
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Key UK Nuclear Deterrent Link Destroyed Over Yorkshire
The Ministry of Defence has refused to clarify whether the catastrophic mid-air failure of the Trident relay system was a weather accident or sabotage
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The Undemocratic Power Grab at the Heart of Restore Britain
Rupert Lowe says he is committed to ‘direct democracy’ but Restore Britain’s own founding documents, seen by Byline Times, reveal that doesn’t apply to his own party
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Andy Burnham Insists He Still Backs Electoral Reform After Amendment Blocked
Ministers offer cross-party talks on changing Westminster’s voting system as bid for speedy reform stalls
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Jason Arday’s Death Has Unmasked Trump’s Support for Anti-Black Racism
The reinstatement by Ghent University of Nathan Cofnas – a key figure in the Jason Arday affair – followed pressure from Trump’s State Department
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The BBC Is Just Nodding Along
The corporation’s news coverage has lost its soul as a bulwark against unaccountable power and extremism, writes a former BBC News producer
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‘Our Anger Over Jason Arday’s Death Is Not Enough’
As Cambridge University launch an inquiry into the case of Professor Arday, led by former Chief Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, Richard Sudan from The Voice argues his death must inspire action, accountability and lasting change
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Reform UK Sting Broadcast by Channel 4 Confirms Years of Byline Times Warnings
The extraordinary footage echoes concerns raised by Byline Times over the sources and beneficiaries of money flowing into Farage’s party.
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‘The 2026 Plan to Steal This Election, and All Those After’
If Republicans fail to hold onto the House or Senate in the 2026 midterms, Brynn Tannehill comes to the conclusion that they will reject the results
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Evacuating Civilians from the ‘Kill Zone’ Under Threat from Drones in Eastern Ukraine
On a strip of territory where vehicles can be spotted and struck by drones at any moment, Theo Prouvost joins the volunteers risking their lives to rescue residents
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Conservative and Reform Bid to Ban ‘Foreign’ Language Election Leaflets Defeated
The Conservative push explicitly criticised Green Party campaigning in the recent Gorton & Denton by-election
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Police Contradict Reform Council Over Claim Town Centres are ‘Unsafe’ Due to Asylum Seekers
Force says Braintree, Colchester and Chelmsford “are safe” and crime is down, as Reform-run county council launches £150,000 private security patrols over asylum seeker arrivals
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Andy Burnham Faces Backlash Over Apparent Retreat From Donations Cap Pledge
Open letter says ‘politics should not be for sale’ as Government resists extending its £100,000 overseas-donor limit to UK voters
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The Dark Money Questions Surrounding Kemi Badenoch’s Net Zero Attacks
Onward, whose report underpinned Claire Coutinho’s speech tearing up the 2050 target, has taken money from National Grid, Equinor, Shell and BP
